Posted on 08/16/2017 2:19:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Gov. Cuomo Urges U.S. Army to Rename Confederate Streets in Brooklyn in Wake of Charlottesville Violence
Gov. Cuomo on Wednesday called on the U.S. Army to reconsider its recent decision not to rename two streets in Brooklyn honoring Civil War Confederate generals.
“Renaming these streets will send a clear message that in New York, we stand against intolerance and racism, whether it be insidious and hidden or obvious and intentional,” Cuomo wrote in a letter sent to acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
The Army on Aug. 7 denied requests from New York congressional members to change the names of Stonewall Jackson Drive and General Lee Avenue on the Fort Hamilton Army Base, the city’s only active military post.
Cuomo in his letter asked McCarthy to reconsider in the wake of “the violence and terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the resulting emboldening of the voices of Nazis and white supremacists.”
“Symbols of slavery and racism have no place in New York,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo, who has been mentioned as a possible 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, wrote that New York condemns language and violence of white supremacy “in no uncertain terms.”
“Unlike President Trump, we stand together to say that there are not many sides to hatred and bigotry; they do not belong in our communities and must be denounced for what they are,” he wrote.
Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the presumptive Republican challenger against Mayor de Blasio, said she, too, believes the streets should be renamed.
In Charlottesville, some on the left attacked free speech “I suggest that these streets be renamed after true heroes of the U.S Army; recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Malliotakis said in a statement first reported by Politico New York.
In rejecting the initial request to rename the two streets, Army Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Diane Randon wrote to Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke that the naming of the streets after Confederate generals was originally done in “the spirit of reconciliation” and to honor soldiers who were “an inextricable part of our military history.”
“After over a century, any effort to rename memorializations on Fort Hamilton would be controversial and divisive,” Randon wrote.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson served at Fort Hamilton in the 1840s, about two decades before they became leaders of the Confederate Army.
An Army spokesman could not be reached for comment about Cuomo’s letter or Malliotakis’ comments.
New York State (where I currently reside) needs an enema. Actually, it’s Albany that could really use a high colonic.
Names it’s OK now to use in America:
Che Guevara
Vladimir Lenin
Josef Stalin
Mao Tse-Tung
Karl Marx
Fidel Castro
Hugo Chavez
Nelson Mandela
Malcolm X
Names you can’t use in America:
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Lee
Jackson
Wilson
Roosevelt
This entire thing is getting ludicrous.
They are like children raising their hands and saying,”Me,me,I’ve found one of those bad things——let’s get rid of it.”.
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Destruction of our history ping list. Please let me know if you want on or off this list. I think it might become a high volume ping list.
Thank you Bare-ass Obama for fomenting our present racial strife.
Martin Luther King would be so proud.
Soon it will be a hate crime to be white.
Soon?
;)
Yeah, let’s follow the example of the commies in Russia when they took over and rename everything that isn’t consistent with the commiecrats wishes.
Let’s rename everything after the most accomplished mass killers in history.
Giving scumCuomo a prolonged wooden shampoo would send a clear message about his seditious mouthiness.
R. E. Lee had a long history of service before his stint in the CSA
Guess we won’t be studying Lee’s tactics in leadership. Total insanity.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. - George Orwell, 1984
Yes - abusing poor Mexicans.../s
Lincoln and then Johnson understood that the peace that followed the Civil War had to be handled in a very sensitive manner if they ever wanted the Southerners to be “Americans” again. That sentiment lasted a long time, but apparently it is a safe time to undo that reconciliation (actually, affirmative action undid it already). This government that treats blacks as incompetent children can’t expect others (including blacks themselves) won’t learn from that treatment.
Communists always rewrite history as part of their resurrections.
That....I know there is a segment of the African American community , eg Herman Cain and Alvida King and Diamond and Silk, that don’t think that way
We quit telling people that communism, i.e. Totalitarianism is dangerous. We don’t teach the specialness of the US as we should.
Whether we got complacent or embarrassed I am not sure but we need to get back to it
“We” just allowed communists to infiltrate our country; they now dominate the education and political spheres, as well as the media outlets controlled by those two.
The USSR flag should be as abhorrent as the Nazi flag; it is a disgrace that people who wave it aren’t treated with the same disgust and revulsion as a Nazi would be.
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